I wanna learn...educate me brehs

[CourtesyFlusher]

A few questions for my simple brain:

1) Is it true we know more about the universe than we do what's in our own oceans? If so how is that possible?

2) With the billions of people who have died, how is there still room to bury them? Granted its become more popular to be cremated, but isn't burial still the biggest thing in most cultures, so isn't the earth gonna be one huge graveyard eventually?

3) How big is that Great Pacific Garbage Patch out in the ocean, and how serious of a problem is it? Is it possible to clean up?

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

1) is impossible.

2)Eventually when religion dies we'll just be okay with cremating or vaporizing or whatever with bodies.

3)Big as fukk. Miles across.Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[DEAD7]

A few questions for my simple brain:

1) Is it true we know more about the universe than we do what's in our own oceans? If so how is that possible?
True. The depths of the ocean are harder to explore than space.

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It could be a bit of an exaggeration...

2) With the billions of people who have died, how is there still room to bury them? Granted its become more popular to be cremated, but isn't burial still the biggest thing in most cultures, so isn't the earth gonna be one huge graveyard eventually?
de·com·po·si·tion

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1. The act or result of decomposing; disintegration.
2.
a. Chemistry Separation into constituents by chemical reaction.
b. Biology Breakdown or decay of organic materials.

3) How big is that Great Pacific Garbage Patch out in the ocean, and how serious of a problem is it? Is it possible to clean up?

No one knows exacty, estimated to be like 250,000+ sq.miles
I dont see why it would be possible...

 

[theworldismine13]

1) Is it true we know more about the universe than we do what's in our own oceans? If so how is that possible?

hmm i would say we are equally ignorant about both

at the macro level (big picture) we understand the physical laws that make the universe run, so as far as the universes we understand why things move and why they exist, but that is about it.

so i would say that assertion is false, i think people say it to point out the fact that we know very little about the ocean floor and only have general ideas about the inside of the earth, but we dont know what the oceans of europa look like either so i think its an exaggeration to say we know more about the universe than the ocean

vid about europa

2) With the billions of people who have died, how is there still room to bury them? Granted its become more popular to be cremated, but isn't burial still the biggest thing in most cultures, so isn't the earth gonna be one huge graveyard eventually?

no the "biomass" of humans is tiny compared to the mass of the earth, there is no way we can run out of space on earth to bury people, there would have to be hundreds of trillion of people on earth for that to be a problem

oil and coal are actually biomass that was compressed millions of years ago, and eventually that is how we will end up, the bones of people today will be the fuel for people tomorrow

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[Higher Tech]

1) is impossible.

2)Eventually when religion dies we'll just be okay with cremating or vaporizing or whatever with bodies.

3)Big as fukk. Miles across.Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Can't blame religion for everything.

“I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime”

 

[acri1]

A few questions for my simple brain:

1) Is it true we know more about the universe than we do what's in our own oceans? If so how is that possible?

2) With the billions of people who have died, how is there still room to bury them? Granted its become more popular to be cremated, but isn't burial still the biggest thing in most cultures, so isn't the earth gonna be one huge graveyard eventually?

3) How big is that Great Pacific Garbage Patch out in the ocean, and how serious of a problem is it? Is it possible to clean up?

1. Not really - but there is a LOT we don't know about the ocean. It's hard for anybody to go down there (due to the pressure), not to mention there's no light. A lot of the lifeforms that live deep in the ocean are pretty weird. For example I've seen some pictures of fish with no eyes.

2. People are very small compared to the size of the earth. Every human on the planet could fit (physically) in Texas. Also, decomposition.

3. HowStuffWorks "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch"

 

[ltheghost]

1. Not really - but there is a LOT we don't know about the ocean. It's hard for anybody to go down there (due to the pressure), not to mention there's no light. A lot of the lifeforms that live deep in the ocean are pretty weird. For example I've seen some pictures of fish with no eyes.

2. People are very small compared to the size of the earth. Every human on the planet could fit (physically) in Texas. Also, decomposition.

3. HowStuffWorks "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch"

Great Pacific Garbage Patch!?!?!?! WTF Damn we are fukking up the earth.....Can't we send that shyt into outer space or shoot it at the sun!?!?